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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Egg Yolk Rocket Ravioli with Walnut Sauce


This recipe was inspired by the latest series of Masterchef Australia. One of the contestant cooked it as 'green eggs and ham'. I decided to try a version of it.
Firstly I made the pasta. I pureed some rocket with olive oil and mixed this in with the egg to be incorporated through the pasta. Actually the dough had a beautiful texture and rolled out really well.


I bought some pepper goats cheese on the weekend at the markets to use as my base to the egg yolk. I made little wells with it, separated my egg yolks and very carefully put them in. I made six and one of the them must have just broken as I put it down, it still worked fine though as it was only a little leek over the edge.


I cooked them in plenty of boiling salted water until the pasta was just cooked (I check by sticking my finger nail in the pasta, if it goes straight through its done). This was just over two minutes. 


I served them on some crisp baby lettuce with a walnut sauce my hubby made. He melted some butter, softened some garlic and browned the walnuts as well. Squeeze of a lemon and seasoning and it was done.


This was such a success. The yolk was perfect, oozed out when we opened them up. Taking a mouthful of crunchy lettuce with pasta, egg yolk, goats cheese and walnuts was delicious. I might have to make this one again to show off to some guests!


21 comments:

  1. You never cease to amaze me with your creative dishes - perfectly executed! These look WONDERFUL!

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  2. Oh wow - I love seeing people re-create Masterchef dishes! I think you're the first one this season and it looks fab. Will you making the V8 cake or whatever crazy thing Zumbo comes up with this year?

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  3. I'm not usually a fan of uncooked egg yolk ( I know I'm strange)But these look gorgeous!! I love the edition of the walnuts, yum!

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  4. That looks awesome! I am sure it was fun to make as well. All of the ingredients look soooooo good.

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  5. These look incredible! I love the oozing egg yolks - you have no idea how bad I want these right now!

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  6. Unusual but they look fantastic. Diane

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  7. I have seen this kind of ravioli in Italy but have never made them... I am always scared that the yolks will break when I close the ravioli!!! Well done! They look really good! :-)

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  8. Never seen this kind of ravioli before!They look fantastic!Well done,dear Muppy:)))

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  9. Fantastic! I have yet to try an egg yolk ravioli, but look forward to when I do if they look anything like yours ;)

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  10. Haha that is so clever! I love it :D

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  11. I've heard of egg yolk ravioli before, but I've never tried them. I love the color of these ravioli and the walnut sauce sounds wonderful!

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  12. A very interesting version of ravioli! It looks so good!!

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  13. Wow those look amazing. I would never even attempt something as fiddly as that!

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  14. Your dish looks delicious! I really want to try egg yolk ravioli :D

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  15. Wow, this looks amazing! I love egg yolks when they are perfectly oozy but have never had egg yolk pasta. It sounds and looks absolutely delicious though.

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  16. wow the ravioli looks fantastic! mmm..goats cheese...

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  17. This sounds so delicious! Love the walnut sauce!

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  18. Nice work! I'd love to make pasta one day. This looks so delicious!

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  19. Wow! This is gorgeous! Kind of like sunny side up! Delicious!

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  20. Great job with the soft yolks, it would have been so disappointing if they were over cooked.

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